Schumer: Don’t force Israel to make concessions The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Democrats Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), former New York Mayor, Ed Koch, and New Republic Editor-in-Chief Marty Peretz for their courageous and forthright criticism of the Obama Administration’s pressure on and hostility towards Israel. In a detailed interview, Senator Schumer said: […]

by Yishai Goldflam, Ricki Hollander, Gilead Ini The Economist, with Al Jazeera hot on its heels, has dug up a new Israeli villain: traffic lights. This joins aphrodisiac bubble gum, poisonous candy, super rats, and stripper assassins in Israel’s purported arsenal of tools to oppress Arabs. According to a March 6, 2010 article in the […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is in Washington this week to meet with senior United States officials. In a news conference held during his tour, Barkat took a firm stance on the Obama administration’s pressure to stop building houses for Jews in eastern Jerusalem, saying a construction freeze would be “illegal”. “There’s […]

Jennifer Rubin The J Street Education Fund has taken out an ad that takes issue with Elie Wiesel’s criticism of Obama on building in Jerusalem. But J Street doesn’t merely call for a housing freeze or for outlying Arab neighborhoods to be ceded to a Palestinian state. Using the mouthpiece of former Knesset member Yossi […]

By: Jerold S. Auerbach Thirty years ago – Friday evening, May 2, 1980 – in Hebron. Inside Me’arat HaMachpelah, the massive 2,000-year-old Herodian edifice above the tombs of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish people, the Shabbat service had just concluded. Several dozen Jews, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, walked to nearby Beit […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The State Prosecution and the residents of Beit Yehonatan in the Shiloach neighborhood have agreed to have the Jerusalem Administrative Court decide the fate of the building, which is inhabited by eight Jewish families. The residents told Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein that they have agreed to request a temporary injunction from […]

If safeguarding international security is the chief aim of US President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, then at some point he can be expected to change course in the Middle East. For today, Obama faces the wreckage of every aspect of his Middle East policies. And largely as a consequence of his policies, the region moves […]

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” YnetNews, April 27, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3879831,00.html Since 2007, US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority and to PA-controlled NGOs reached nearly $2BN, in addition to $3.7BN contributed by the US to UNRWA since 1950. Has American foreign aid to Abu Mazen advanced moderation, the pursuit of peace and US national […]

By Ruth King While much has been written about the Cold War—recently Glenn Beck’s fine documentary Revolutionary Holocaust detailed the horrors of Stalin’s and Mao’s evil empires–there has been little attention to the heroic Russian “refuseniks” and the remarkable role they and their international supporters played in bringing down the Iron Curtain. There were a […]

Muddling the Iran Issue INSS Insight No. 177, April 26, 2010 Schachter, Jonathan, Landau, Emily B., and Asculai, Ephraim www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=3969 On April 17 the New York Times revealed that in January US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote a memo to National Security Adviser James Jones on the need to develop policy options regarding Iran’s […]